HOLE
An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole.
“I was genuinely amazed throughout but Stevie Hancox-Monk blew my mind. I’ve never seen them so charming, so lovable. I laughed with them and felt their pain, they were so emotionally generous – I was spellbound.” — The Wellingtonista
“HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs
“Incredible…Brilliant…A Winner!” – The Wellingtonista ★★★★★
“Captivating…a metaphor for Antarctica’s peril!” – Sarah Catherall, The Dominion Post ★★★★★
HOLE premiered at Circa Theatre in 2021, and had a short development season at Circa Theatre in 2020, which was directed by David O’Donnell.
Playwright Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Directors Kerryn Palmer & Sally Richards
Performers Stevie Hancox-Monk, Sepelini Mua’au, Elle Wootton
In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica.
It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies…
Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Belgian Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT.